1. When you sit down to dine with a ruler,consider carefully what is before you,
2. and put a knife to your throatif you have a big appetite;
3. don’t desire his choice food, for that food is deceptive.
4. Don’t wear yourself out to get rich; stop giving your attention to it.
5. As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears, for it makes wings for itselfand flies like an eagle to the sky.
6. Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread, and don’t desire his choice food,
7. for it’s like someone calculating inwardly. “Eat and drink,” he says to you,but his heart is not with you.